AUERSTADT, ow'ėr-stĕt, Saxony, a village
famous for the great battle which took
place there 14 Oct. 1806, between the French
under Davoust, and the Prussian army under
Duke Charles of Brunswick, which ended in a
great victory for the former. The Prussians,
who numbered 48,000, left nearly half of their
men dead or wounded on the ground, while the
French (30,000) escaped with a loss of only
7,000. Napoleon made Davoust Duke of
Auerstadt. The village lies 25 miles northeast of
Weimar. Consult Lettow-Vorbeck, ‘Der Krieg
von 1806 und 1807’ (Vol. I, Jena und
Auerstädt, Berlin 1891).